as in slug
a lazy person
she regretted ever asking that layabout to be her roommate, as he created the mess of two people and refused to help with anything
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Recent Examples of layabout
And typically, Wegmann added, those units are occupied by productive, working adults, not layabouts or career criminals leeching off the system, as the old narrative goes.
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Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Mar. 2026
As the story begins, Mary and Boo are neighbors, unemployed millennial layabouts who rarely leave their rooms.
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Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
Tamma’s mother is partnered with a drug-dealing layabout; Dan’s mother, a onetime successful novelist, has a worsening heart condition.
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Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2026
Not surprisingly, some colonists preferred to be layabouts.
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The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
27 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for layabout
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Mar. 2026
As the story begins, Mary and Boo are neighbors, unemployed millennial layabouts who rarely leave their rooms.
—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
Tamma’s mother is partnered with a drug-dealing layabout; Dan’s mother, a onetime successful novelist, has a worsening heart condition.
—
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2026
Not surprisingly, some colonists preferred to be layabouts.
—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
27 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for layabout
Recent Examples of Synonyms for layabout
Noun
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Calendula Calendula’s fleshy leaves, stems, and flowers also draw slugs and snails away from other crops and can be interplanted in food or flower gardens for natural slug control.
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Dunlap explains that these pungent compounds deter strawberry-loving garden pests like slugs and aphids while also acting as mild fungicides.
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The war is now concentrated in the Kordofan, Darfur and Blue Nile states, with drone warfare causing 60% of casualties, according to UNICEF.
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The purchase reflects a broader effort to improve protection at military bases as unauthorized drone activity becomes more common.
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Sometimes there is a fine line between being a hero or a bum, but Dave has been able to negotiate that line, because players trust him, and the players know that Dave cares about them and their families.
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Designed with a plunging neckline, modest bum coverage, and compressive fabric with UPF 50 sun protection, the elegant silhouette offers rich-girl vacation energy that could easily double as a bodysuit with shorts.
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To track down her mother, Lila teams up with her deadbeat father for a journey that includes grudge-settling, Russian criminals, and corrupt politicians.
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Based on a script by Justin Varava that made the 2024 Black List, Turpentine follows a deadbeat son who hires friends to rob his own parents to pay off a bookie, with disastrous results.
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Their name exudes the essence of an idler and slacker, but women’s loafers themselves are quite the opposite.
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This represents the loss of an idea of what the capital should represent, the removal of a place that was an idler’s haven.
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Calendula Calendula’s fleshy leaves, stems, and flowers also draw slugs and snails away from other crops and can be interplanted in food or flower gardens for natural slug control.
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The game was crawling along at a snail’s pace with a rare boundary here and there.
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Scar then proceeds to desolate the kingdom, with the help of hyenas, while Simba, in exile, grows up to become a pleasure-hunting, grub-eating sluggard.
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Clearly, supervision at your job is lax, and your sluggard classmate is taking advantage of that.
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Lucky Brand’s 410 model has gone on sale — all the more reason to cosign its deep indigo wash, contrast stitching, mid-rise waist, and subtle slouch.
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Cape Verde qualified by winning a group that included African powers Cameroon, so this team is no slouch.
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“Layabout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/layabout. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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